From: Luca Berra (no email)
Date: Sat Jan 01 2005 - 10:24:30 EST
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:14:03PM +0400, Philippe AMIOT wrote:
>Helo,
>I'm currently new to Postfix & sasl mechanism, and i tried to set up a sasl
>auth on my postfix :
>
>I have one domain, no ldap (actualy)
>And I'd like to authenticate my users from their /etc/passwd (shadow)
>via sasl & pam
>
>If I understand (I'm French) the docs my schema would be Postfix->SASL
>AUTH->pam->users shadow passwords
>or maybe
>Postfix->SASL -> SASLdb if pwcheck_method: auxprop in
>/var/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf
why on earth do you want to put sasl configuration in /var?
>-----------------------------------------
>---[ /var/log/mail/warning ]---
>-----------------------------------------
>
>Dec 31 10:31:21 opale postfix/smtpd[31940]: warning: SASL
>authentication
>failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Too many levels of
>symbolic
>links
>Dec 31 10:31:21 opale postfix/smtpd[31940]: warning: SASL
>authentication
>failure: Password verification failed
>
>Dec 31 10:31:21 opale postfix/smtpd[31940]: warning:
>opale.myserver.com[192.168.0.2]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed
>
weird, could you please do an ls -l of
/var/spool/postfix/var/lib/sasl2/mux
and all path components?
did you play with symbolic links under the postfix spool directory?
>#SASL
>smtpd_sasl_path = /usr/lib/sasl2
>#smtpd_sasl_path = /etc/postfix/sasl:/usr/lib/sasl2
you told postfix that the sasl configuration file is in /usr/lib/sasl2
...
>---[ /var/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf ]---
then you put it in /var/lib/sasl2 ?
>---[ /etc/pam.d/smtp ]---
>[ a howto advice ! ]
>
yes, i will provide a default one in newer postfix rpms
>
>---[ sasldblistuser2 ]---
this is not relevant to saslauthd
L.
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